Thanks, Gad, for the Torah vort.Often, when I feel afraid, I tell myself that we all have a chelek (part) of Hashem in us and we are empowered by that part to do the things that are hard for us. It helps.

Rabbi Immanuel Schochet passed away a month ago. His shloshim is about now.

I once heard him tell a story about Rabbi Meir Perishlan

Rabbi Meir used to go to the mikva in all weather. The Mikva was on a hill, and in winter the hill was often a sheet of ice. Still, he went up and down the hill, and people regarded it as miraculous.

Some teenagers scoffed at this, and they told everyone that they could also do it. They tried, but they fell and broke some bones.As they were lying in bed recuperating, Rabbi Meir came to visit them. They asked him, how was he able to go up and down the ice without falling.He answered, "Meir is tied to above. When one is attached to above, one doesn't fall below"

The parsha is divided into seven parts. Some people study one part each day of the week, beginning sunday, so that on Shabbos they study the seventh part and thereby complete the parsha.

In the part studied Tuesday (shlishi -- the third part), G-d tells us that we don't need to go to the ends of heaven, or over the sea, to access Torah. For it is very close to us, in one's mouth and heart, to do it.

Tanya explains that the 'mouth' signifies the learning of Torah. 'To do it' means doing mitzvos. And because every Jew has an inherited belief and connection to G-d in the heart, it is therefore very close to us; Torah and mitzvos are very close and accessible.

The rebbe rashab, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe, was actually a patient of Freud.

He seemed to have depression, and Freud analyzed the problem, and gave advice.

This was recorded in the recent rebbe's notes. It details the analysis and the advice.

Researchers analyzed freud's writings, what he wrote before he saw the rebbe rashab, and what he wrote afterwards.They found that freud's writings after he saw the rebbe were much more sympathetic to religious beliefs.They conclude that the rebbe rashab was probably a good influence on Freud.

Maybe this was the reason, by Divine Providence, why Freud was destined to meet the rebbe rashab.

In this week's parsha, Moshe tells heaven and earth to hear his words.And he connects it to acknowledging G-d's greatness.

Heaven can signify the sky. It can also mean spirituality. Spirituality in the general world, and also inside man.

Earth can refer to the physical world. And also the physicality in man.

Heaven and earth are two opposites. How do we bring harmony and unify them? By bringing G-d into the picture.

Teshuva, return, means returning to G-d, and also returning to the G-dly soul within us.

Sometimes two people argue, and what's needed is to bring a moderator into the picture.A moderator stands above the two arguers. He is given the authority and ability to decide and, sometimes, to find a way to make things work out, to bring harmony.

G-d is in the world, but also is above world. When we acknowledge and access Him, we bring holiness into the mundane, and we create harmony and synergy, so that the entire universe functions in an optimum and successful way, even better than before.

May all of klal yisroel be written and sealed for a good and sweet year, and a year of redemption, with "the happiness of the world on their heads."

It says that "every Jew will have a share in the world to come." -- a soul in a body (techiyas hameisim).Because "even the worst Jewish sinner is full of mitzvos like a pomegranate."And mitzvos are done with the body.

Mitzvos refine the world, making it a dwelling place for G-d.Intrinsically, every Jew is a part of G-d, so every Jew feels G-d's desire to have a dwelling place in this world.

When the world becomes refined, we will be rejuvenated, each soul in its body.And then everyone will see that G-d chose the Jewish body.

Happiness can be felt when we know that G-d is everywhere, together with us.

Happiness can be felt when we know that our actions, our Torah and mitzvos, create a dwelling place for G-d, and that G-d rejoices with this dwelling place, as it says, 'yismach Hashem bimaasov,' -- G-d rejoices with His creations.

It says that all Jews are worthy to sit in one sucah.This highlights jewish unity.

The lulov, estrog, arovois and hadasim represent four types of Jews. The lulov, estrog, arovois and hadasim need to be held together in order to fulfill the mitzva.This highlights jewish unity, that we all are, and need to be, together.

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